May 23 - Rumors are circulating in Washington DC and among the space
enthusiast community that U.S. President George W. Bush will announce
a new
Mars program this summer. Rumors have the announcement of a new initiative
to send Humans to Mars coming on July 20th, a date which has special
significance, as it was the first time a probe sucessfully landed on
Mars in
1976. (Viking 1)

Remember that Bush's father tried to launch an expanded program of the
human
exploration of space back in 1989, but that initiative was eventually
killed
in Congress due to unreasonable cost estimates.